Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells on the first part of the Shevchenko's life leading up to the writing of his rebellious poem "A Dream" (A comedy).
Ivan MykolaichukTaras Shevchenko
Yuriy Leontyevyoung Taras
Dmytro MilyutenkoUncle Ivan
Nataliia NaumYadviha Husikovska
Mikhail DerzhavinKarl Bryullov
Kostiantyn StepankovSoshenko
Vasyl DashenkoVenetsianov
Dmytro FrankoVasyl ZhukovskyIvan Kononenko-KozelskyiHryhorovych
Vladimir GoncharovEngelhardtMykola TalyuraShyryayev
Efim KopelyanPrekhtel
Vladislav StrzhelchikNicholas I
Anatoliy IvanovTsar Alexander I
Vladimir BelokurovDubelt
